If you believe in communication rather than flaunting on style with smart phones then you have gift from Sony. New S312 completely serves the purpose of keeping your budget under control and giving you pure telephony experience. Market is full of cheap headset and S312 is not the cheapest hand set available but it certainly stands out from the crowd, as other cheap handsets neither have looks nor features. Usually cheaper hand set lack quality and have limited controls, they are clumsy to use and not handy to carry.
Unlike cheap hand set Sony Ericsson 312 weighs much higher than its cost. It follows traditional candy bar style design with incredible makeover looks including glossy mirror coating, stylish key pads where 
keys are arranged in horizontal four row fashion. It gives firmer grip. Though its back side has little plastic looks but this is highly overlooked by other strong features. Its over all design beats all other handset in same segment. It has very compact design thus headphone jack shares charging port.
S312 comes with two camera controls, one for taking still images and other to shoot videos. It has basic 15MB storage to store images and videos but it gives you power of added extra storage with memory slots, here you can add cards and enjoy unlimited storage. It uses M2 memory slots than popularly used microSD slots. Some may find M2 rather expensive to use as it is different from widely used standard slots.
The most rewarding thing about S312 is that it uses standard symbian operating system used in many top selling smart phones of Sony Ericssion handsets. It is highly user friendly, easy to use menus with grid layout views, this help easy accessibility to all the features. Key pad is wide and convenient for using longer text messages.